Billy Crudup

William Gaither Crudup born July 8 1968 is an American actor He is a fourtime Tony Award nominee winning once for his performance in Tom Stoppards play The Coast of Utopia in 2007 He has been nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead along with several other awards nominations for his performance in Jesus Son He received two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations as part of an ensemble cast for Almost Famous and Spotlight winning for the latter as well as winning the Independent Spirit Robert Altman Award for the same He earned two Primetime Emmy Awards nominated three times two Critics Choice Television Awards a nomination for Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor Series Miniseries or Television Film and three nominations for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series for his performance on the series The Morning Show 2019 He has starred in numerous highprofile films including Without Limits Princess Mononoke Almost Famous Big Fish Mission Impossible III Watchmen Public Enemies Spotlight Jackie The Stanford Prison Experiment Justice League and Alien Covenant in both lead and supporting roles From 1996 to November 2003 he was in a relationship with actress MaryLouise Parker She was seven months pregnant with their son William Atticus Parker born in January 2004 when he ended their relationship and began dating actress Claire Danes their relationship ended in 2006 In 2017 he began dating actress Naomi Watts after the two met on the set of the Netflix drama series Gypsy They married in New York City in June 2023 From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia